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Way Too Many Apps: (1) The Swiss company Blacksocks offers an iPhone app that utilizes radio frequency identification chips inserted into socks so they can be automatically sorted.

(2) The iPoo app, reported Wired magazine in November, "(l)ets you chat with your fellow defecators from the comfort of your own toilet."

(3) "In development" now, according to Harvard freshman Olenka Polak, is a "Code Red" app that creates an exchange network so that women and girls who find themselves unexpectedly spotting can locate an emergency source for a tampon or pad. [New York Times, 9-22-2012] [Wired, November 2012] [Harvard Crimson, 10-3-2012]

Chutzpah! The former police chief of Bell, Calif., Randy Adams, had resigned in disgrace after prosecutors charged eight other city officials with looting the municipal budget. Adams had been recruited by the alleged miscreants (at a sweetheart salary twice what he made as police chief of much larger Glendale), and his resignation left him with a generous state pension of $240,000 a year.

Rather than quietly accept the payout, Adams immediately appealed to a state pension panel, claiming that his one inexplicably rich year in Bell had actually upped his pension to $510,000 a year. In September, with a straight face, Adams pleaded his case to the panel, but 20 times during the questioning invoked his right not to incriminate himself. [Los Angeles Times, 9-21-2012]